Guwahati Assam India

Sthita-varman, the tenth ruler of Kamarupa, formerly a longtime vassal state of the Imperial Guptas, asserts his independence around 565 from the Later Guptas, angering them in the process.

Kamarupa’s King Sthiha-varman dies in 585, having successfully resisted efforts by the Later Gupta rulers of Magadha to dislodge him.

His son succeeds him as Susthita-varman.

The younger son of Susthita Varman succeeds him in 600 as King Bhaskar Varman of Kamarupa, faced with the task of rebuilding the ravaged kingdom.

Xuanzang, after crossing the Karatoya, goes east to the ancient city of Pragjyotishpur (modern Guwahati) in the kingdom of Kamarupa (modern Assam) at the invitation of its king Kumar Bhaskara Varman, who, though he is a Hindu of the Brahmin caste, nevertheless patronizes Buddhism.

The people of Kamarupa worship the Devas and do not believe in Buddhism.

The Deva-temples are some hundreds in number and the various systems have some myriads of professed adherents.

The few Buddhists in the country perform their acts of devotion in secret.

The pilgrim-monk learns from the people that to the east of the country is a series of hills that reach as far as the borders of China.

The inhabitants of these hills are akin to the "Man of the Lao".

Later, the king escorts Xuanzang back to ...

The Battle of Saraighat is fought on April 9, 1671 between the Mughal empire (led by the Kachwaha king, Raja Ramsingh I), and the Ahom Kingdom (led by Lachit Borphukan) on the Brahmaputra river at Saraighat, now in Guwahati.

The Ahom army, although much weaker, defeats the Mughal army by brilliant uses of the terrain, clever diplomatic negotiations to buy time, guerrilla tactics, psychological warfare, military intelligence and by exploiting the sole weakness of the Mughal forces—its navy.

The Battle of Saraighat is the final battle in what is to be the last major attempt by the Mughals to extend their empire into Assam.

The present day Assam Rifles can trace its origins back to a paramilitary force known as Cachar Levy which was established by the British in 1835 in the Assam region.

The Assam Rifles today boast of being the oldest paramilitary force.

With approximately seven hundred and fifty men, this force is formed as a police unit to protect settlements against tribal raids and other assaults as British rule slowly moves towards the north east parts of India.